Meditations of a Militant Moderate
Author | : Peter H. Schuck |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2006 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780742539617 |
ISBN-13 | : 074253961X |
Rating | : 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Download or read book Meditations of a Militant Moderate written by Peter H. Schuck and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2006 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vital center. Radical middle. Amid the red state/blue state divide, is there now space for an iconoclastic militant moderate? In this unusual and remarkably readable collection of short essays on a wide variety of hot-button public issues--race, affirmative action, surrogate motherhood, diversity, immigration, compensation of 9/11 victims, exclusion of gays from the Boy Scouts and the military, the 2004 election, the rule of law in developing countries, the invasion of Iraq, and many more--Yale Law School professor Peter H. Schuck reveals the distinctive sensibility and policy orientation of a militant moderate: pragmatic, reformist, nonideological, empirically minded, and skeptical of many liberal and conservative pieties.